 Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. |
| In law, nothing is certain but the expense. |
| Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. |
| It is tact that is golden, not silence. |
| God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. |
| Self-preservation is the first law of nature. |
| The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. |
| Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. |
| Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. |
| In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. |
| The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. |
| A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. |
| All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Topics: Animal |
| Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. |
| To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. |
| All truth is not to be told at all times. |
| We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. |
| Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Topics: Life |
| There is no bore like a clever bore. |
| 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. |
