"Free thought has always been a perquisite of aristocracy."

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

"Conscientious objection is a right that the state should respect, but which it has hardly ever respected."

"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, fo…"

"To think I have spent my life on absolute muck."