Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.