“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

“Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.”

“Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.”

“He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.”

“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

“Variety is the soul of pleasure.”

“Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

“And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such,In having heard, and seen too much,My grief must be as great and high,When all abandoned I shall be,Doomed to a silent destiny.”

“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”

“The only shame is the sin.”

“All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”