“WILLMORE: Nay, if we part so, let me die like a Bird upon a Bough, at the Sheriff's Charge. By Heaven, both the Indies shall not buy thee from me. I adore thy Humour and will marry thee, and we are so of one Humour, it must be a Bargain - give me thy Hand - [Kisses her hand.] And now let the blind ones (Love and Fortune) do their worst.”
“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”
“Variety is the soul of pleasure.”
“As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.”
“Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”