Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.