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.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.