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

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

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

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 love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

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

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

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

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

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

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

I wanna go in the studio and just go back to the same amps and stuff I'm so comfortable with the sound of. Which I think is important to stay original.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.