Date of birth: 1835-12-04
Date of death: 1902-06-18
Quotes number: 166
Nationality: British
Profession: Poet
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
