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 confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

Beauty is the lover's gift.