He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
