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

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.

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 good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

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

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.