We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.