A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.