The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.