If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
Hyperrealism is more about objectifying. . . how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens. . . all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.
My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.