Solitude begets whimsies.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

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.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

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

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.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.