The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.