The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

What the government has to do if it wants to govern for any length of time is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time faith is not enough a police force is needed as well.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Without fullness of experience length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.