I love peace--it is a very fine thing--and I hate to see poor fellows killed.

All I want is to spend the rest of my life ashore, and lay out the garden.

You must come and see what a bridge I have made to throw across the fish-pond.

I can do well enough with what I have got, as soon as my farm begins to pay, and I hope I may never hear another shotted cannon; but, my dear Lingo, you know as well as I do how much chance there is of that." "Laudo manentem.

Let us praise her while we have got her.