And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.