Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

False love is only blinder.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.