To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.