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

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.