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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.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’
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.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.