To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

—Bertrand Russell

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

—Bertrand Russell

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

—Bertrand Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

—Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

—Bertrand Russell

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

—Sylvia Plath

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

—Satchel Paige

Working in the garden… gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

—Ruth Stout

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

—Ovid