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.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

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