It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
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.