Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

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

...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no absolute morality, that moralities are sets of social conventions devised by humans to satisfy their needs.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.