People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

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.

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

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

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.

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

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.