Fear is choosing the safe course

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line