Douglas William Jerrold

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

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

“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.”

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

“The sharp employ the sharp.”

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

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

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

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

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

“A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.”

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

“We love peace, but not peace at any price.”

“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”

“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.”

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