Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.