Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. - George Orwell

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” — which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.