When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.