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

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

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.