Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen

Some people read because they are too lazy to think.

I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think

Old men go to death; but death comes to young men