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

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

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.

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.