Every Gain Made By Individuals Or Society

Pleasure Cannot Be Shared; Like Pain, It Can Only Be Experienced Or Inflicted, And When We Give Pleasure To Our Lovers Or Bestow Charity Upon The Needy, We Do So, Not To Gratify The Object Of Our Benevolence, But Only Ourselves. For The Truth Is That We Are Kind For The Same Reason As We Are Cruel, In Order That We May Enhance The Sense Of Our Own Power.

All That Happens Means Something; Nothing You Do Is Ever Insignificant.

Speed, It Seems To Me, Provides The One Genuinely Modern Pleasure.

My Father Considered A Walk Among The Mountains As The Equivalent Of Churchgoing.

Some Of The Greatest Advances In Mathematics Have Been Due To The Invention Of Symbols, Which It Afterwards Became Necessary To Explain; From The Minus Sign Proceeded The Whole Theory Of Negative Quantities.