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

Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

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

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.