Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.