The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an u….

So this is happiness, that journeyman..

Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gr….

The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not ha….

Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never….

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night..

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain….

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose..

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding c….

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything..

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if ….

The only atheism is the denial of truth..

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon..

Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions….

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard..

True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but ma….

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of class….

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights….

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable..

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities..

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the ….