True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

Give me liberty, or give me death.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Necessity knows no law.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.