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

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

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

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

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.