I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.