Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.