One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

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

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

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

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

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.