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.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

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

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.