Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks