Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

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

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

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

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.

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.

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.