You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.