 He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. |
| We love peace, but not peace at any price. |
| The sharp employ the sharp. |
| There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. |
| Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. |
| Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. |
| In this world truth can wait; she is used to it. |
| The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. |
| Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. |
| Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. |
| The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. |
| Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it. |
| The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. |
| Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. |
