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

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.