Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing