The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
From Samuel Butler
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
12 perspectives
10 perspectives
8 perspectives
7 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives