I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.