... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.