I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper. - William Congreve

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.