Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.

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

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.

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

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

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

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