Your old play-writers talked nonsense when they said men lost liberty of person by marriage.

Men lose liberty, but it is the liberty of the mind.

We cease to be independent of the world's word, when we grow respectable with a wife, a fat butler, two children, and a family coach.

It makes a gentleman little better than a grocer or a king! But you have seen Constance Vernon.

Why, out on this folly, Godolphin! You turn away.