Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Love is a trick best performed by men.

Selfishness is the absence of selflessness

When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

Beauty is a mute deception.