It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost every one. Perhaps because I never wanted to disappoint my father.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.