Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

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.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

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

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.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.