Douglas Jerrold

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual and physical nature.

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!

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

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.

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

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

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

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