A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Topics: Friendship, Marriage |
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. |
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. |
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Topics: Friendship |
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies. |
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. |
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. |
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. |
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. |
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. |
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. |
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. |
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. |
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. |
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. |
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. |
Life is one long process of getting tired. |
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa. |
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. |
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. |