Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?