Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

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.

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

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

Necessity, mother of invention.

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.

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