Bertrand Russell — "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."

"The only way to be happy is to like what you are doing."

"The sections that are dwindling include the whole middle-class and the skilled artisans. The sections that are increasing are the very poor, the shiftless and drunken, the feeble-minded—feeble-minded …"

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

"The greatest punishment of the wicked is to be condemned to their own company."