Take away leisure and Cupid’s bow is broken.
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
There will grow from straws a mighty heap.
Do not believe hastily.
Take the advice of light when you’re looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.
When the character’s right, looks are a greater delight.
I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.
If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.
Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.
Love’s dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Keep a mid course between two extremes.
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.