“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Experience“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Truth“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Experience“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”
Religion“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“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“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”
Faith“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”
God“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
Best“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
Architecture“To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
Death“He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.”
Best“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“To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
Beauty“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.”
Death“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.”
Fear“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
Nature“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
Friendship“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.”
Women“And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.”
God“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“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.”
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