"But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest."
"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee."
"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."
"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save."
"Shadow owes its birth to light."
"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."
"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."
"The brave love mercy, and delight to save."
"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."
"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."
"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on."
"On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends."
"I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them."
"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
"Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together."
"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."