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

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them..

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

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies..

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

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

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it..

Life is one long process of getting tired..

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character..

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..

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully re….

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud..

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with grea….

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it..

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance..

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do..

This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark..

Spare the rod and spoil the child..

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on..

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget i….