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.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

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.

There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

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

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