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“The aim is not to be better than everyone else, it is to make everyone else better.”

“The silence of a great writer says more than the writing of the greatest dilettante.”

“Religion is more conservative than any other aspect of human life.”

“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.”

“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality?”

“I am at heart more of a United-States-man than an Englishman.”

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“Turning to God with the deep of the heart is much better than tiring the organs.”

“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

“I can memorize Shakespearian dialogue faster than modern dialogue.”

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“Day and night are nothing more than illusions before our eyes.”

“There is nothing more important in the world than being a person's reason for living.”

“The brightness of a person decidetly causes more envy than material things.”

“The predictions of physical theories for the most part concern situations where initial conditions can be precisely specified. If such initial conditions are not found in nature, they can be arranged. Such arrangements are considerably easier to realize with inanimate than with animate matter, because the properties of animate matter are much more sensitive to being tampered with than inanimate matter. In particular, living tissue in vitro may behave quite differently than in situ. Controlled biological experiments are, of course, possible, but they are more difficult and their scope is more limited than that of physical experiments. For this reason, biology has had to depend to a greater extent than physics on theories of larger speculative scope, in which reasoning by imaginative analogy plays a more important role.”

“They show as little Reason as Conscience who put the matter by with saying—"Men, in some cases, are lawfully made Slaves, and why may not these?" So men, in some cases, are lawfully put to death, deprived of their goods, without their consent; may any man, therefore, be treated so, without any conviction of desert? Nor is this plea mended by adding—"They are set forth to us as slaves, and we buy them without farther inquiry, let the sellers see to it." Such men may as well join with a known band of robbers, buy their ill-got goods, and help on the trade; ignorance is no more pleadable in one case than the other; the sellers plainly own how they obtain them. But none can lawfully buy without evidence that they are not concurring with Men-Stealers; and as the true owner has a right to reclaim his goods that were stolen, and sold; so the slave, who is proper owner of his freedom, has a right to reclaim it, however often sold.”