A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.
To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Words are clothes that thoughts wear
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.