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.

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.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.