If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

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.

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

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

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

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

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

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

I always say there are no coincidences.

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.