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.

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.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

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

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

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.