A woman's fitness comes by fits.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!