Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.