Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
Youth is the only thing worth having.
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.