"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."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"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"
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."