There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature. - Mark Twain

Also, to be fair, there is another word of praise due to this ship's library: it contains no copy of [Oliver Goldsmith's] The Vicar of Wakefield ... a book which is one long waste-pipe discharge of goody-goody puerilities and dreary moralities. . . .

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.