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

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.