Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

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.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.