Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

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

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

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

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

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.