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.

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

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

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

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

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.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.