We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

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.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.