He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad

The surest way to hit a woman’s heart is to take aim kneeling.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image."

He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.

The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.