Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the new york times.

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.