My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.