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.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

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