He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.