Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

I like man, but not men.

Shallow men believe in luck.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.