The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who, on grounds of decorum and morality, avoids the game of love. He is one who pu...ts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know the thing that's most uncommon (Envy be silent and attend!);... I know a reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend.
Not warped by passion, awed by rumour, Not grave through pride, or gay through folly; An equal mixture of good humour And sensible soft melancholy.
'Has she no faults, then (Envy says), sir?' Yes, she has one, I must aver: When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And but for fancies, which aver That all thy motions gently pass... Athwart a plane of molten glass, I scarce could brook the strain and stirLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »