One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

A healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestion.

God was satisfied with his work, and that is fatal.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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

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