My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical educ…

Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime…

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a tho…

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world