The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.