Everything is politics.

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.