Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.