The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.