All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.