You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

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

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

Come away; poverty's catching.

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.

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