According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Nature's hasty conscience.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.