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

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

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

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

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

Necessity, mother of invention.