If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.