Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Lost time is never found again.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.