But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. – John Gay
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. – John Gay
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. – John Gay
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James