Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
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