The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

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.

Some who grow dull religious straight commenceAnd gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Without love, life is unsustainable.

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

I'm restless and wildI fall, but I tryI need someone to understand.

Two wrongs don't make a right.