It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
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.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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.
We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.
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 philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.