People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.