Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

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

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

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

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.