Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart

Young lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business anywhere else

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow

(Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin