If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.