I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

All religions are both harmful and untrue.