1. “You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”
2. “Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances .”
3. “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
4. “Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.”
5. “Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
6. “Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”
7. “God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”
8. “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
9. “He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.”
10. “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
11. “Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
12. “If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
13. “The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose is money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”
14. “In law, nothing is certain but the expense.”
15. “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
16. ” Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
17. “All animals except man know the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
18. “To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”
19. “Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.”
20. “In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.”
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