The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.