Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

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

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

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.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.