Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
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.
There is no sinner like a young saint.
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.