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.

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

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

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

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

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.