If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.