I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.