» The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
» Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
» Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
» The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
» 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.
» Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
» Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
» Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
» The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
» Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.