Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
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.