“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”
“Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”
“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”
“I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.”
“A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.”
“The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!”
“Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!”
“Lord, keep my memory green.”
“He would make a lovely corpse.”
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”
“Philosophers are only men in armor after all.”
“Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.”
“Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.”
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
“This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”
“Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.”
“Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.”
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .”
“He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”
“The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.”
“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”