It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

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.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.