In the day you rise in your strength, toothless and clawless, you will be as harmless as an army of clams.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.