Aphra Behn

"Love is a perfect tranquility, and nothing can disturb it but ourselves."

"I owe a duty to my God, my King, and my Country."

"The world rewards the appearance of success."

"Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense."

"A lady-writer is looked upon with an ill nature by the generality of men readers."

"Men are not naturally tyrannical, but power makes them so."

"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret."

"We should not judge of what is true by the multitude of voices that speak of it."

"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn."

"I would not have you love me, only because you are obliged to do so."

"None of the greatest charms of beauty serves to recommend a woman so well as virtue."

"The heart alone declares when it is touched."

"No time's too long when you have found the woman you love."

"All the greatest beauties of creation are in mutability and change."

"Fortune and love befriend the bold."

"The soul is what makes us human."

"Ah, how fatal is the lore which all to ruin brings."

"Women have no characters at all."

"The very foundation of honor is truth."

"To love and be wise is scarcely granted to the greatest men."

"Necessity has a way of forcing us to choose."

"Every moment lost is a moment never to be recovered."

"The pursuit of knowledge shall set you free."

"Vain is that ambition which doth only study self."

"A true heart conceals more than it reveals."

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind."

"Beauty and humor make the world turn on love."

"Women deserve freedom as much as men."

"Constancy is a virtue I cannot wish to see in a lover."