Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.