No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.