I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.