The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

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

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.