I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.