You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Funny
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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.
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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To live is like to love—all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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Money indeed may be considered as the most universal and expressive of all languages. For gold and silver coins are no more money when not in ...
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.
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