Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.