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

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

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

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.

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

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

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.