Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!