Douglas William Jerrold

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

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

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

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.

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

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

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

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

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