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

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.