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

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.

I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.