The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.