Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

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.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.