Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

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

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

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

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.