Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."