A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.