Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.