All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

Half is done when the beginning is done.

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.