Everything comes in circles. … The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
When water is near and a weight is missing it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.
There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.
The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.