And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.