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.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

It is only light that can extinguish darkness.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

The most wonderful taste of serenity is found by the love you create for yourself, and those around you.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.