And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

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.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.