Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.