Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.