It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.