Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

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.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

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

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.