Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.