The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.