You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.