“The jests of the rich are ever successful.” — Oliver Goldsmith

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.