I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.