The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.