Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.