The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.