Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.