One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 1.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Those who claim to always be right, are always wrong about atleast one thing.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

It is with the approach of winter that cats... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

A parishioner had undergone a serious operation and was still under the influence of the sedative when the vicar came, so the vicar just said a prayer and left. The next day he returned and asked the patient if he had been aware of his visit. "I vaguely remember your visit yesterday. I remember opening my eyes and thinking 'I can't be in Heaven because there is the vicar'.".