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.

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...