I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions; and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.