"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."

"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire."

"Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war."

"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."

"In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."

"Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth."