Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

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.

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

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.