Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.