The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt
increases.--_Schiller._
There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to
hide.--_George Sand._
~Gunpowder.~--If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous
discovery with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and
the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or
weep at the folly of mankind.--_Gibbon._
A coarse-grained powder, used by cross-grained people, playing at
cross-grained purposes.--_Marryatt._
Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first, and
barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the report is
heard, so that it maketh a noise, not by way of warning, but of
triumph.--_Fuller._