A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.