In real life there is no such person as the average man.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.