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

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

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

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

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.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.