Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
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.
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.