[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.