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

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

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

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

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