All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.

We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.