The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.