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

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

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.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

Anything in your life achieved too soon or too freely with little sacrifice is lost too quickly

Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset.

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

Find the right people, not the best people.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.