Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

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

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

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