We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.
Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.