Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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.
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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.