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

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

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

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.