“We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.”

“I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.”

“...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.”

“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”