C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Wycherley
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
Ceremony and great professing renders friendships as much suspected as it does religion.
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction least; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
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.
I weigh the man, not his title; ’t is not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
Necessity, mother of invention.
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
Wit has as few true judges as painting.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.