No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

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

I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.