Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.