Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.