A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Necessity, mother of invention.

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

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

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

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.

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