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

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

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

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

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.