The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.