After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.