Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

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

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.