"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world"
"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day"
"Death is only a larger kind of going abroad"
"Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him"
"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since"
"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one"
"Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both"
"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them"
"Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance"
"Be virtuous and you will be vicious"
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well"
"And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods"
"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books"
"All truth is not to be told at all times"
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income"
"All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others"
"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it"
"Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them"
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy"
"A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war"
"A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing"
"A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct"
"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends"
