Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

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.

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.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.

Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.

Every rose has its thorn:- you never find a woman without pins and needles.