If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.