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

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

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.