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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?