Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.