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

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.