The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite