When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

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

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.