A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
