The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness.

I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.