A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Create, artist, do not talk.

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.