You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.