Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.