A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

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 beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

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

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

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

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.