Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

God is Love — I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov’d true before Prove false again Two hundred more.

The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.