What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.