To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.