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

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.

A little scorn is alluring.

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

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.