A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.