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

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

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.

You were born with success in you and simply need to give it a pathway of expression.

My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony.

That's why I like the blackest nights-the darkest, obsidian skies of winter. When the world is coldest and darkest, the stars shine brightest.

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

You might be a redneck if your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.