Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.