Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."

An individual human existence should be like a river

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.