I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.