All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!