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

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

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.

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

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!