My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.