What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.