Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.