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

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

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

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.