The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.