"There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."