If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue |
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's. |
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall long be surprised to find out how little remains that we cannot do |
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason |
In law, nothing is certain but the expense. |
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. |
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. |
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. |
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence |
It has, I believe, been often remarked that 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. |
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all |
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of |
It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. |
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. |