We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.