“The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.”

“It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.”

“True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.”

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”

“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”

“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”

“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”

“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”

“The happy people are those who are producing something.”

“The happy people are those who are producing something.”

“The happy people are those who are producing something.”