When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.