I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

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

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.