But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!