A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
— Douglas William Jerrold
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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 only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
The sharp employ the sharp.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
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.
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
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.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
