Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.