If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.