For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.