Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.