Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

Life is not life unless we can feel it.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

There are orphanages, he exclaimed to himself, for children who have lost their parents -- oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.