"Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it."

"We love peace, but not peace at any price."

"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life."

"There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body."

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

"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."

"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."

"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."

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

"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."

"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."