Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it

We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets

'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

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself

Earth is here so kind [Australia], that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest

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