Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

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.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

Mirrors, ' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

First we form habits, then they form us.

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.