"Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement."

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."

"True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible."

"PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than be loved for who I'm not."

"Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal."

"If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat."