Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.

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.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

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.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.