Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.
I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
