“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Liberty is worth paying for.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

If it is not to make the world better what is money for?

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Yes, it’s important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.