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.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

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

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

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.