A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.