A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

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

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.

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

Necessity, mother of invention.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.