DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

The sharp employ the sharp.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

The best thing I know between France and England is- the sea.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one.

... not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive to the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.