One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.