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| Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone. | | Uncategorized | |
| Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. | | Uncategorized | |
| People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. | | People | |
| People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. | | People | |
| People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. | | Uncategorized | |
| People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced | | Christianity | |
| Pleasure after all is a safer guide than either right or duty | | Uncategorized | |
| Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last | | Uncategorized | |
| Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate | | Uncategorized | |
| Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. | | Uncategorized | |
| Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance. | | Uncategorized | |
| Self-preservation is the first law of nature. | | Self-esteem | |
| Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence | | Silence | |
| Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason, and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics, which are their principal study | | Uncategorized | |
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| Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. | | Uncategorized | |
| Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room / The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; / Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, / Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: / O God! O Montreal! | | Uncategorized | |
| Such as do build their faith upon, The holy text of pike and gun | | Uncategorized | |
| Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished. | | Uncategorized | |
