Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

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

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.