A Finely Tempered Nature Longs To Escape

I Have Never Belonged Wholeheartedly To Country Or State, To My Circle Of Friends Or Even To My Own Family... Such Isolation Is Sometimes Bitter, But I Do Not Regret Being Cut Off From The Understanding And Sympathy Of Other Men. I Lose Something By It,to Be Sure, But I Am Compensated For It In Being Rendered Independent Of The Customs, Opinions And Prejudices Of Others, And Am Not Tempted To Rest My Peace Of Mind Upon Such Shifting Foundations.

All The Fifty Years Of Conscious Brooding Have Brought Me No Closer To Answer The Question, "what Are Light Quanta?" Of Course Today Every Rascal Thinks He Knows The Answer, But He Is Deluding Himself.

The World As We See It Is Only The World As We See It. Others May See It Differently.

The Moon Does Not Simply Disappear When We Are Not Looking At It.

If Everybody Lived As I Do, Surely The Writing Of Romance Novels Would Never Have Come Into Being.