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

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

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

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.