One may like the love and despise the lover.

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.

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

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

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

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.