Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Those who understand evil pardon it: those who resent it destroy it.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin shewed us that they are our cousins.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.

Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience, and celibacy are the canonical vices.