Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.