Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

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.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

Come away; poverty's catching.