We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.