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

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.

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

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

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

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

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