When It Comes To Believing

And I Believe That The Binomial Theorem And A Bach Fugue Are, In The Long Run, More Important Than All The Battles Of History.

When You Are Getting On In Years (but Not Ill, Of Course), You Get Very Sleepy At Times, And The Hours Seem To Pass Like Lazy Cattle Moving Across A Landscape.

People Make Mistakes In Life Through Believing Too Much, But They Have A Damned Dull Time If They Believe Too Little.

Laziness In Doing Stupid Things Can Be A Great Virtue.

The First Quarter-century Of Your Life Was Doubtless Lived Under The Cloud Of Being Too Young For Things, While The Last Quarter-century Would Normally Be Shadowed By The Still Darker Cloud Of Being Too Old For Them; And Between Those Two Clouds, What Small And Narrow Sunlight Illumines A Human Lifetime!