As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

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

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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

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

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