There is nothing less powerful than knowledge unattached, and incapable of application. That is why what little knowledge I have has done myself pers… - Samuel Butler

It is the manner of gods and prophets to begin: "Thou shalt have none other God or Prophet but me." If I were to start as a God or a prophet I think I should take the line: "Thou shalt not believe in me. Thou shalt not have me for a God. Thou shalt worship any d_____d thing thou likest except me." This should be my first and great commandment, and my second should be like unto it.

There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.

To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.