The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.