To the query ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest, for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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