Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.