Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

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.