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

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.