It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.

There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.