Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.