Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.