Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

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.