The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.