"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.""Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.""Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.""The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.""To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.""I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.""And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence""Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.""A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.""In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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