Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

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.

To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.