We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Fortune, that favors fools.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.