I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

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.

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

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

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

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.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.