“A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.”
Money“The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.”
Money“A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.”
Money“Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.”
Money“Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.”
Best“Let every man be true and every god a liar.”
God“God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.”
God“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.”
Fear“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”
Marriage“Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.”
God“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
Medical“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'”
Power“Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.”
Dreams“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
Home“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
Art“The want of money is the root of all evil.”
Money“We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”
Best“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”
Death“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.”
Work“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
Best“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Experience“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”
Respect