Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

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

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

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