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.

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.

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.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.