Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.