What is really beautiful must always be true.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.

We’re currently faced with two entirely different challenges – facing down Islamism and jihadism on the one hand, and advancing human rights and democratic culture on the other.

You seen it, was it as pretty as me?

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.