I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.