"I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better."

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."

"Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better."

"We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms."

"And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods."

"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."

"Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters."

"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man."

"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

"To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty."

"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."

"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."

"To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious."

"I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking."

"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing."

"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."

"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

"There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?"

"Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?"

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."

"The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony."

"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."

"Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics."

"It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies."

"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust."

"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life."

"The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions."

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

"The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof."

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

"Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name."

"Let every man be true and every god a liar."

"All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others."

"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day."

"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."

"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

"Opinions have vested interests just as men have."

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable."

"The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence."