Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude..

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days..

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em..

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity..

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen sh….

Variety is the soul of pleasure..

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and y….

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern..

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing ….

Jealousy, the old worm that bites..

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil..

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea..

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have..

'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry….

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow..

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way..

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!.

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting..

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library..

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret..