“For every why he had a wherefore.”
“The money men make lives after them.”
“Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
“It is tact that is golden, not silence.”
“Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.”
“The want of money is the root of all evil.”
“Life is one long process of getting tired.”
“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.”
“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”
“God cannot alter the past, but historians can.”
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
“Opinions have vested interests just as men have.”
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
“There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.”
“In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.”
“Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.”
“The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.”
“There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.”
“Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.”
“Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.”
“Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.”
“A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.”
“He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.”
“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.”
“To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.”
“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.”
“The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”
“For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”