Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.