Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

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.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!