A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

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

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.