There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

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.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.