Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."