Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.