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

Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

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

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.