If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

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.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.