It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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.
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Let man be true and every god a liar.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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.
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