It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.