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.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

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

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

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

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

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