» I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
» The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
» 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 is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
» If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
» Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.