We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.