Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

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

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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

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

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.