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.

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.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.