Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

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.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.