Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.