Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

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

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

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 should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.