To Smell, Though Well, Is To Stink.

Every Abridgement Of A Good Book Is A Fool Abridged.

If There Is Such A Thing As A Good Marriage, It Is Because It Resembles Friendship Rather Than Love.

There Is Nothing Which So Poisons Princes As Flattery, Nor Anything Whereby Wicked Men More Easily Obtain Credit And Favor With Them.

Like The Watermen Who Advance Forward While They Look Backward.

Marriage Has, For Its Share, Usefulness, Justice, Honour, And Constancy; A Stale But More Durable Pleasure. Love Is Grounded On Pleasure Alone, And It Is Indeed More Gratifying To The Senses, Keener And More Acute; A Pleasure Stirred And Kept Alive By Difficulties. There Must Be A Sting And A Smart In It. It Ceases To Be Love If It Has No Shafts And No Fire.