The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.