The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.