O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.