Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

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

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.

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.

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

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.