There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

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

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence