Bad husbands will make bad wives. - William Makepeace Thackeray

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

The vessel is in port. He has got the prize he has been trying for all his life. The bird has come in at last. There it is with its head on his shoulder, billing and cooing close up to his heart, with soft outstretched fluttering wings. This is what he has asked for every day and hour for eighteen years. This is what he pined after. Here it is-the summit, the end-the last page. Good-bye Colonel. God bless you, honest William! Farewell, dear Amelia. Grow green again, tender little parasite, round the rugged old oak to which you cling!

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.