Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.