If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.