Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

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

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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

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