Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.