The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.