Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.'].

From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Go to bed early get up early-this is wise.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.