An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.