Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
The sharp employ the sharp.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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.
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
