This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.