A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.