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

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

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

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.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.