Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

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

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

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.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.