Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

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

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

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.