Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Beware pride

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.