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

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

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.