The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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.

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.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.