Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.