I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.