Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.