Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

Come away; poverty's catching.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.