It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.