It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

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

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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

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

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

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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

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

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

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

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

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

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

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.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

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

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.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

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.