It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?