The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

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

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

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

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.