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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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