Home is the best place to be sick in.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.