True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

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

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.