“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”

“Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy--and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.”

“Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!”

“Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.”

“A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.”

“You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.”

“Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.”