“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference”

“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else”

“No man can become rich without himself enriching others”

“To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably”

“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it”

“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time”