You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.