The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

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

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

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

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

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

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