“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.