Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.