Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth