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.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

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

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.