A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
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.