Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.