Religion`s in the heart, not in the knees.
Love`s like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.
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.
The sharp employ the sharp.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
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.
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.
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it`s ten to one if they hang long together.