Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.