When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,

And only cowards dare affront a woman.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.