Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.