Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.
Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.