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

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

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.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.