Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.