He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure..

Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise..

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing..

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

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak..

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved..

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear..

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd..

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom..

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull..

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

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise..

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait….

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind..

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views..

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you..

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 bec….

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play..

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consumi….

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure..