"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress."

"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."

"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."

"If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read."

"Wisdom principle 3 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 55."

"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."