Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
Wit has as few true judges as painting.
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.