Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Never say more than is necessary.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

I leave my character behind me.