Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.