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.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

Who pleases one against his will.

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.