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.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

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.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.