There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

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

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

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.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.