Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.