When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.