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.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

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.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

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.

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.