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.
William CongreveA hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William CongreveIf there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve