Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.