“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“Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.”
Death“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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
Art“All truth is not to be told at all times.”
Truth“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.”
Medical“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
Friendship“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Experience“Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
Music“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“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
Nature“The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.”
Money“Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.”
Best“The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.”
Science“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”
Religion“Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.”
Death“Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.”
Death“The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
Truth“If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.”
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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.”
Art“God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.”
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