Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.