There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

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.

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.