True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals