You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.