Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.