I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

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

I detest war; it ruins conversation