Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

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.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.