Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.