Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

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

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.