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

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

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

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.

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.

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

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.