Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.