Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?