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.

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

In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

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

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.