To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

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.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language