The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Genius is sorrow's child.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.