Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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.
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."