The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.