The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.
When you’ve told someone that you’ve left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
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