A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
Wit has as few true judges as painting.
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.