"If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable."

"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."

"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear."

"'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."

"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

"You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words."

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."

"I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull."

"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."

"Beauty is the lover's gift."

"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."

"Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond."

"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."

"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."

"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."

"No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me."

"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."

"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one."

"They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom."

"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."

"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task."

"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

"A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant."

"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."

"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved."