"I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world."

"I am growing fit, I hope, for a better world, of which light of the sun is but a shadow: for I doubt not but God's works here, are what comes nearest to his works there; and that a true relish of the beauties of nature is the most easy preparation and gentlest transition to an enjoyment of those of heaven; as on the contrary a true town life of hurry, confusion, noise, slander, and dissension, is a fort of apprenticeship to hell and its furies... The separation of my soul and body is what I could think of with less pain; for I sm very sure he that made it will take care of it, and in whatever state he pleases it shall be, that state must be right; but I cannot think without tears of beingseparated from my friends, when their condition is so douubtful, that they may want even such assistance as mine"

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!"

"Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!"

"Well, if our author in the wife offends He has a husband that will make amends; He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving, And sure such kind good creatures may be living."

"The stoic husband was the glorious thing. The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true, And lov'd his country."

"I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims, or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there. It gives one the image of a giant's den in a romance, bestrewed with scattered heads and mangled limbs."

"How vast a memory has Love!"

"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light."

"I am his Highness' Dog at Kew; Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are you?"

"Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends."

"Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise."

"The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul."

"They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake."

"A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again."

"'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; No force can bend me, no persuasion move."

"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie."

"Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground."

"Oh no: we never mention her! Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word."

"Sure it is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away."

"Those, who have wealth, must be watchful and wary; Power, alas! nought but misery brings!"

"I'd be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet."

"I'm saddest when I sing."

"My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met."

"Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget."

"The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!"

"Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be."

"Oh pilot, 'tis a fearful night! There's danger on the deep."

"The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me."

"Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago."

"Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep."

"She wore a wreath of roses The first night that we met."

"Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?"

"Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar."

"We met,—'twas in a crowd."

"I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady A recitative from Tancredi, And something about "Palpiti!" Sing forte when first you begin it, Piano the very next minute, They'll cry "What expression there's in it!" Don't sing English ballads to me!"

"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."

"Pious Selinda goes to Pray’rs, If I but ask the Favour; And yet the tender Fool’s in Tears, When she believes I’ll leave her.Wou’d I were free from Restraint, Or else had Hopes to win her; Wou’d she cou’d make of me a Saint, Or I of her a Sinner."

"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."

"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study."

"Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected."

"Ah! Whither, whither shall I fly, A poor unhappy Maid; To hopeless Love and Misery By my own Heart betray’d?"

"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."

"Mr Congreve... would make many brilliant hits – half a dozen in a night sometimes – but like sharpshooters, when they had fired their shot they were obliged to retire under cover till their pieces were loaded again."

"O, she is the antidote to desire."

"Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants, like a maker of pincushions; thou art in truth (metaphorically speaking) a speaker of shorthand."

"Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; And as well-bred as if we were not married at all."