I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
Wit has as few true judges as painting.
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
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
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