Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.