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.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.