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.

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

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

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

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

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

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.