The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

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

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.

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

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.