Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.