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.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.