Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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

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.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.