“Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!”

“Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you."[Love's Last Shift]”

“Thou strange piece of wild nature!”

“The happy have whole days,and those they choose.The unhappy have but hours,and those they lose.”

“Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.”

“Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,sage and venerable liquid ...to whose glorious insipidity,I owe the happiest moments of my life,let me fall prostrate.”

“Oh, I forgot to tell you the rest of it—he’s a widower now, so they can ride off together into the sunset, their wedding rings glinting.”