If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.