Francis Cornford Quotes
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The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.
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Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
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Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
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My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.
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Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.
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University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
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I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.
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