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

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

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.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

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

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!