There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

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

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

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

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

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.