Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

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.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

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.