If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.