Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

The very pink of perfection.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

Tenderness is a virtue.