Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
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.
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.