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

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.