What some people invent the rest enlarge.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.