No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.