Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.