Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

Who pleases one against his will.