It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.