To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

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

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

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.

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

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.