The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest

In this world truth can wait; she's used to it.

If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment

Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it

Every rose has its thorn:- you never find a woman without pins and needles

Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the second glass.

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment