"Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant."

"Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved."

"One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God."

"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions."

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)"

"It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others."

"A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it."

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

"I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman."

"The only gift is a portion of thyself."

"Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776."