Occupation: Architect Birth: January 24, 1664 Death: March 26, 1726
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it..
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading..
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable..
If women were humbler, men would be honester..
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass..
As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em..
Love, like virtue, is its own reward..
You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having i….
No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so..
A slighted woman knows no bounds..
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it..
Love's like virtue, its own reward..
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals.
Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written..
Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her..
Custom is the law of fools..
He laughs best who laughs last..
We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For we's not very fow, but we're….
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me..
We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order..
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world..