I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.