Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

All movements go too far.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.