"The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices."

"One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad."

"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!"

"I loathe law. It seems to me as if it were merely an elaborate series of obstacles to doing things sensibly."

"To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."