A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.