Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.