All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Good men must be affectionate men.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.