“It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.” — Samuel Richardson

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.