I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.