The living have never shown me how to live.

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.