Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.