Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.