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.

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.