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.

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

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.