Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.