The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.