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.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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.

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

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