True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover. But say what you … - William Congreve

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

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.

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

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

All well bred persons lie – Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think…

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.