The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

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

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

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.