Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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.