The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

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.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.