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 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.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

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

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.