No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.