No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth