The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

Warfare cannot be humanized.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.