“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
Humor“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”
Health“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
Humor“Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
Music“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“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
Death“We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.”
Money“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.”
Funny“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”
Art“Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?”
Marriage“Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.”
Faith“A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.”
War“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
Best“God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.”
God“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.”
Legal“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
Life“The history of art is the history of revivals.”
Art“To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
Death“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”
Religion“God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.”
God“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
Art“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