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

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

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.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

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.