Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.