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.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.