Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns...
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
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.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
