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

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.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

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.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

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