Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

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.

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

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.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.