To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.