The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

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.

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 an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.