All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.