Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

My advice to anyone who wishes to write is to know all the very best literature by heart, and ignore the rest as completely as possible.

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.