True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.