If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.