If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.