Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

A little scorn is alluring.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

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.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.