When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.