You would say... inexperienced as I am, and ready to start, as the proverb says, at my own shadow, I cannot afford to give up the sure ground of principle. ...and when you are further required to give an explanation of this principle, you would go on to assume a higher principle, and the best of the higher ones, until you found a resting place; but you would not refuse the principle and consequences in your reasoning like the Eristics—at least if you wanted to discover real existence. The Trials Of Socrates

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. The Post Office Girl 

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. Factors Determining Human Behavior

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. Ulysses