Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair..

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass..

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous..

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets..

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost..

It takes all sorts of people to make a world..

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens..

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world..

Quality, not quantity, is my measure..

What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--wh….

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world..

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest..

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others..

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps..

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoym….

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon..

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery..

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it..

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first..

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself..

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at….