The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.