Docility is the observable half of reason.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

A simple life is its own reward.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.