Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

I do so hate to leave this world.

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.