If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.