Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

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.