“Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.”

“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world”

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”

“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come”

“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century”

“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”