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

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

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

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

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

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.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.