When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.