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

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

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

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.