Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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.

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.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.