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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
