A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.