Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.

Man differs more from man than man from beast.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man’s own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch – the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

Angels listen when she speaks; She’s my delight, all mankind’s wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

Natural freedoms are but just: There’s something generous in mere lust.

Love’s chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

Since ’tis Nature’s law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

I’d be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.