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

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

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

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

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