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

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

“Thou strange piece of wild nature!”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.”