What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.