A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.
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.