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

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

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.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds