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

Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

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

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.