Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.