Men still have to be governed by deception.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.