One may like the love and despise the lover.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.