Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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.
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
