I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.