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

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.

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

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.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.