All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!