As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.