Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.
To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.