When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.