If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.