Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.