Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.