People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.