I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.