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.

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

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

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

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.