The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.