Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.