I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.