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.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.