The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.