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

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

I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

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.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

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.