HERE'S nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion.

Lord Byron, Don Juan.

HE never speaks to any one, which is of course a great advantage to any one.

Lady Ashburton, apud Lord Houghton.

'M not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Mrs. Poyser, in George Eliot's Adam Bede.