Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?