Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.
Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.