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.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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.