Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft