It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.