Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

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.

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

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Necessity, mother of invention.

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