There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

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

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.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

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.

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.