Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.