One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once..

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he onl….

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously..

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions..

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them..

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them..

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate..

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies..

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him..

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously..

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about ….

Friends are like money, easier made than kept..

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad..

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in….

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have..

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead..

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without..

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense….

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself..

God cannot alter the past, though historians can..

The course of true anything never does run smooth..