You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.